And we really shouldn’t be quibbling over movies ripping off Rear Window because Hitchcock’s film was itself kind of a rip-off. It basically had the same premise as the movie The Window, which was about a kid witnessing a neighbor commit murder from the fire escape, and it came out just five years earlier.
That’s because it, too, was based on a short story by Cornell Woolrich, who apparently had the same great idea twice. And that story was later adapted two more times. So, really, it’s always been more of a generic thriller trope, not a specific reference to one movie. Which means that Hollywood will presumably continue beating this dead horse while another horse watches through some kind of telescope for horses.
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